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Historical data overview

Monthly historical Places Insights data is available starting from January 2024. This data is useful for performing trends analysis to understand how the places in an area have changed from month to month.

Setup

Historical Places Insights data is available for the cities listed in the table below. See Set up Places Insights for additional instructions on how to subscribe to these data exchanges.

Schema

The schema for historical Places Insights data is the same as for the latest data (see Places Insights reference), with the following exceptions.

Excluded fields

The schema for historical Places Insights data does not include rating or user_rating_count.

Additional fields

The schema for historical Places Insights data includes the following field in addition to the core schema.

Field Name	Type	Mode	Description	Example
`snapshot_date`	`DATE`	`NULLABLE`	The snapshot date for the place.	`2024-01-01`

Example queries

As with the latest data, the SELECT statement when querying historical data must include WITH AGGREGATION_THRESHOLD. (See Write a Places Insights query). Additionally, you will likely want to GROUP BY snapshot_date. The following example shows how to query for the number of operational restaurants by month.

SELECT WITH AGGREGATION_THRESHOLD
  snapshot_date,
  COUNT(*) AS count
FROM
  `PROJECT_NAME.places_insights_historical___us.places_historical`
WHERE
  'restaurant' IN UNNEST(types)
AND
  business_status = "OPERATIONAL"
GROUP BY snapshot_date
ORDER BY snapshot_date ASC;

Available listings

The following tables list the supported cities and countries and provide links to subscribe. You can subscribe to sample data and full data for each city and country.

Sample data

City, Country	Subscribe link	Table names
Sydney, Australia	AU	`places_insights_historical___au___sample.places_sample_historical`
Sao Paulo, Brazil	BR	`places_insights_historical___br___sample.places_sample_historical`
Toronto, Canada	CA	`places_insights_historical___ca___sample.places_sample_historical`
Paris, France	FR	`places_insights_historical___fr___sample.places_sample_historical`
Berlin, Germany	DE	`places_insights_historical___de___sample.places_sample_historical`
London, Great Britian	GB	`places_insights_historical___gb___sample.places_sample_historical`
Mumbai, India	IN	`places_insights_historical___in___sample.places_sample_historical`
Jakarta, Indonesia	ID	`places_insights_historical___id___sample.places_sample_historical`
Rome, Italy	IT	`places_insights_historical___it___sample.places_sample_historical`
Tokyo, Japan	JP	`places_insights_historical___jp___sample.places_sample_historical`
Mexico City, Mexico	MX	`places_insights_historical___mx___sample.places_sample_historical`
Madrid, Spain	ES	`places_insights_historical___es___sample.places_sample_historical`
Zurich, Switzerland	CH	`places_insights_historical___ch___sample.places_sample_historical`
New York City, United States	US	`places_insights_historical___us___sample.places_sample_historical`